Metropolitan Water District

With so many Southern Californians eager to remove their water-guzzling lawns amid this historic drought, the Metropolitan Water District is considering adding $350 million to its budget to keep offering rebates and incentives.

For only the third time in the past 25 years, the board of directors of the Metropolitan Water District, the water wholesaler for Southern California, will consider whether to ration water supplies to its member agencies.

Residents and businesses across the Southland are being asked to cut back on their water use over the next several days while a regional water treatment plant is shut down for drought-related upgrades.

Southern California’s largest supplier of water, the Metropolitan Water District, which provides water for 19 million people, declared a “Water Supply Alert” Tuesday in light of California’s historic drought.